Institute of Philosophy and Art History
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.
Main research areas
Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).
The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).
With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.
The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.
- 2025
2025 Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
17.09.2025 → 20.09.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Gender, Sexuality and Contentious Speech Today
Trott, B. (Speaker)
15.09.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ecologies of Recovery: Complexifying Notions of Connectivity and Resistance in a More-Than-Human World
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
24.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beyond Notions of Periphery and Center: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
18.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The “Ends of War” and Research in Guatemala.
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Posocco, S. (Speaker)
15.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Material Ecologies: Architecture, Objects, and Ornamentation along the East African Coast
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
03.07.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Power, Resistance, Fascism: Re-reading Foucault in the Present (LIAS Workshop)
Demirović, A. (Speaker), Karakayali, S. (Organiser), Nigro, R. (Organiser) & Luxon, N. (Organiser)
25.06.2025 → 26.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From Archives to Activism: Using Data to Challenge Structures in Art Collections
Romero, B. (Speaker) & Medina Fortes, L. (Speaker)
24.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies - Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
24.06.2025 → 25.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Between Siena and the Swahili Coast: Afro-Eurasian Entanglements and Artistic Dynamics
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
20.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Between Connections and Knowledge: An Approach to Culture through Graph Theory and Complex Systems
Romero, B. (Speaker)
17.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vibe Coding para humanistas. Perdiendo el miedo a la IA
Romero, B. (Speaker)
05.06.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
"Branches of an Imaginary Marimba". Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the Nation-State in Contemporary Art Practice
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
30.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Il y a ‚de la‘ plèbe. La fabbrica della marginalizzazione e il rifiuto del neopopulismo
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
22.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crisi e ritorni dello Stato
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
18.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
L’irruzione dei saperi minoritari
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
16.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Du refus du travail à la multitude. Le néopéraisme d’Antonio Negri
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
15.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Postsecular Reckonings
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
14.05.2025 → 15.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
From Left to Right: Shifts in Political Hegemony Against the Backdrop of Structural Transformations of Capitalism and Class Composition
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
09.05.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zur Aktualität der Queer Studies (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
25.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Black Archive Alliance: Epistemologies of Absence and Presence
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
24.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Beyond the Family. Spatiality, Modes of (Re)production and Forme of Life
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
11.04.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Thinking of Home Beyond the Family Model and the Supremacy of Man
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
11.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Dance, Diaspora, and the Artist's Subject: Edmundo Torres' China Diabla Tradition
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
03.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Revolution Trouble: Massimo De Feo’s Nietzschean Communism
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
03.04.2025 → 05.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Les arts de gouverner
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
27.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Le néo-marxisme hérétique de Foucault et de Marx
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
26.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Violencia de Estado y Violencia Colonial: Reverberaciones de Edicto Cambio de Nombre
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker), Cumes, A. (Speaker) & Boror, M. (Speaker)
22.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Witches, Carnival, Dance of Death. On the Artistic Collaboration between Eva Aeppli and Jean Tinguely.
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
21.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cancel Culture Context (Duke University, Durham)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
18.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates (Duke University - Leuphana University )
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
18.03.2025 → 19.03.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Foucault en mots
Nigro, R. (Speaker) & Polleri, M. (Speaker)
08.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Organiser), Rother, L. (Organiser), Leeb, S. (Organiser), Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser), Moreschi, B. (Organiser) & Pitta, F. (Organiser)
07.02.2025 → 08.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Textile Ecologies Konferenz
Houghteling, S. (Organiser) & Schulz, V.-S. (Organiser)
05.02.2025 → 07.02.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Matters of Scale: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity in Coastal East Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
30.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A King, a Giraffe, and a Land Full of Riches across the Sea: Florence and Its Afro-Eurasian Entanglements, Connectivity, and Resistance
Schulz, V.-S. (Speaker)
17.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Leaving Art History? Contemporary Art and Material Practices
Leeb, S. (Speaker) & Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
10.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
- 2024
Inquiétude de la philosophie, inactualité de la politique. Sur les divers usages de Nietzsche
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
17.12.2024 → 18.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Für eine Philosophie der Übersetzung
Costa, M. T. (Speaker)
12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Le arti di governo di Foucault: un contributo per una lettura marxista eretica del neoliberalismo?
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
11.12.2024 → 12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Small Formation: Lines and Alternating Knots as Logistic Inversions
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
02.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Gegenwart: Hannah Arendt & Susan Sontag
Costa, M. T. (Speaker) & Kramer, S. (Speaker)
26.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Buchvorstellung: Dal rifiuto del lavoro alla moltitudine - La filosofia sovversiva di Toni Negri
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
21.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Research Presentation from PhD Project "Materiality in Art Practices from Postwar Guatemala: Bodies, Soil, Meat, Cosmos"
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)
21.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)
14.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Podiumsdiskussion: Über den Schmerz der Anderen - Postkolonialismus und multidirektionale Erinnerung.
Kück, T. (Moderator) & Leeb, S. (Speaker)
13.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
The Conjuncture of 'Cancel Culture': Relations of Gender and Sexuality in Times of Crisis (Universität Zürich)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
06.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung
Rother, L. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution
Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)
05.11.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Generalized Between Icon, Symbol and Index: The Physical Dimension in Isotype and Unicode
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
11.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Foucault's and Marx' Heretical Neo-Marxism
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
18.10.2024 → 19.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Conjuncture of "Cancel Culture": Gender, Sexuality and "Free Speech" Conflicts Today (Universität Basel)
Trott, B. (Speaker)
17.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
11.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
'THREADS ARE VEINS' – On Magdalena Abakanowicz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
10.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
What is Constituent in the Constituent Power? Limits and Strength of a Concept
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
10.10.2024 → 11.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference Dedicated to the Centenary of the H2SO4
Ruhkopf, M. (Moderator), Tchelidze, K. (Organiser), Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Volz, J. (Speaker)
09.10.2024 → 31.10.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
09.10.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
VISU: Vagueness, Incompleteness, Subjectivity, and Uncertainty in Provenance Language Processing and Linked Open Data Modelling
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
03.09.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education
University of Basel
Trott, B. (Visiting researcher)
01.09.2024 → 31.12.2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Riss, Trauma, Heilung - Therapeutische Konstellationen um Emma Kunz
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
28.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Memories of Paper: The Digital History of Pan
Koss, M. (Speaker)
26.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
25.06.2024 → 29.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
The Practice of Decolonization
Leeb, S. (Organiser), Drayton, R. (Organiser) & Morris, R. C. (Organiser)
11.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Beyond Jefferson's Futures.
Leeb, S. (Chair)
08.06.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
Emma Kunz: Drawing as a tool, Healing as a process
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
07.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Expansive Museality: Camila Caris Seguel in Conversation with Sebastián Eduardo Dávila on Museo del Mundo and the Garífuna Nation
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker) & Caris Seguel, C. (Speaker)
05.06.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung
Stubenrauch, H. (Organiser)
16.05.2024 → 17.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tracing the Unknown: Learning from Provenance Data
Rother, L. (Organiser) & Mariani, F. (Organiser)
15.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
5th Transregional Academy on Latin American Art 2024
Eduardo Dávila, S. (Participant)
04.05.2024 → 12.05.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Provenance of Provenance: Provenance LOD as Nanopublications
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Therapeutische Verfahren in künstlerisch-intervenierenden Praktiken
Kipke, A. (Speaker) & Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
23.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker) & Klotzek, W. (Speaker)
20.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Provenance Language Processing: A Human-in-the-Loop Perspective
Mariani, F. (Speaker)
09.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Analyzing the Depiction of Motherhood through Multimodal Networks. A Comparative Study about socially engaged engravers producing in Brazil in the 20th century
Medina Fortes, L. (Speaker) & Romero, B. (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Emma Kunz, Eva Aeppli – A Closer Look at the Visionary
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
22.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies workshop for doctoral candidates
Trott, B. (Organiser) & Rosenberg, G. (Organiser)
19.03.2024 → 23.03.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Von der Renaissance-Perspektive zur Axonometrie: Textile Raumkonzeptionen
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
15.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024
Koss, M. (Chair) & Rother, L. (Chair)
16.02.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tennis Moments in Theory, Writing, and Art.
Kipke, A. (Speaker)
09.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
From Text to Data: AI and Human Expertise in Provenance Linked Open Data
Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
08.02.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Quantity, Quality, Trust: Dilemmas and Strategies of Museum Documentation in the Age of AI
Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)
17.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Towards Wikidata: How to Transform Provenance with AI
Mariani, F. (Speaker) & Rother, L. (Speaker)
13.01.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Associazione Italiana Walter Benjamin (Publisher)
Costa, M. T. (Editorial Board)
2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2023
Material Performance - by Olympia Bukkakis with Dagat Mera
Trott, B. (Organiser)
20.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis
Trott, B. (Organiser)
20.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
La scénografie des "Immatériaux"
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
18.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Podiumsdiskussion: Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe.
Kück, T. (Moderator), Leeb, S. (Participant) & Kindata, D. (Participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Vom Unrechtskontext zur Kooperation? Über den Umgang mit dem kolonialen Erbe
Leeb, S. (Panel participant)
06.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Widerständigkeit der Immaterialien. Inszenierung und Eigensinn der Exponate in "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985)
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
01.12.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
'Branches of an Imaginary Marimba'. The Force of Syncretism in Contemporary Art
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
22.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Abstraktion in Bewegung – Überwindung des Gegenständlichen in der Zeit. Der abstrakte Film der deutschen Filmavantgarde
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
18.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Digital Image Research Program
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
16.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Digital Revolution as Counter Revolution
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Simon, J. (Speaker)
16.11.2023 → 17.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Syncretism in the study of contemporary art from the Americas
Eduardo, S. (Speaker)
15.11.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Animals in Capitalist Societies: Conceptualizing the Anthropological Form
Stefanoni, C. (Speaker) & Aloe, F. (Speaker)
10.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Una proposta forte per un pensiero debole
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
02.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
(Not) in Demand: The Berlin Museums and their Acquisitions from the Dresdner Bank 1935
Rother, L. (Speaker)
01.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Zoopolitics of Life and Death
Stefanoni, C. (Organiser) & Timeto, F. (Organiser)
17.10.2023 → 18.10.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A Queer Case for the Basic Income at Our Current Conjuncture: Political Philosophy, Individual Rights and De-Individualisation
Trott, B. (Keynote Speaker)
10.10.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research